Looking to buy some electronic gifts, and want to support some of the greener companies out there? Apart from browsing through GTC archives, you could head over to Greenpeace, where they've posted their 2007 "Guide to Greener Electronics."

Looking to buy some electronic gifts, and want to support some of the greener companies out there? Apart from browsing through GTC archives, you could head over to Greenpeace, where they've posted their 2007 "Guide to Greener Electronics." An effort to push the electronics industry in a greener direction, Greenpeace rates the top 18 industry leaders according to their policies on recycling (takeback, specifically) and their use of toxic chemicals in manufacturing.

No one does spectacularly well: The best you can hope for is about a 7.7 out of ten, courtesy of a tie between Sony Ericsson and Samsung. Sony, Dell, and Lenovo come in with a 7.3.

Who did worst? Microsoft and Philips were pretty bad--2.7 and 2, respectively--but Nintendo scored the first ever absolute 0. Wow.

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